The Mill Mystery (1886)

by Anna Katharine Green

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Classic Literature. Fiction. Mystery. HTML: Early detective novelist Anna Katharine Green was a unique writer in several respects, including the fact that many of the detectives featured in her novels are women. In The Mill Mystery, protagonist Constance Sterling takes on the seemingly impossible task of uncovering the true culprits behind the drowning death of a popular young pastor who is believed to have killed himself. .… (more)

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After the death of her friend, Constance Sterling works as a nurse to the dying Mrs Pollard. But what secrets does the household hide. What connection is there to the clergyman Burrows.
An interesting mystery.
Originally published in 1886 (

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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |

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1886

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I had just come in from the street. I had a letter in my hand. It was for my fellow-lodger a young girl who taught in the High School and whom I had persuaded to share my room because of her pretty face and quiet ways.

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Classic Literature. Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

Early detective novelist Anna Katharine Green was a unique writer in several respects, including the fact that many of the detectives featured in her novels are women. In The Mill Mystery, protagonist Constance Sterling takes on the seemingly impossible task of uncovering the true culprits behind the drowning death of a popular young pastor who is believed to have killed himself.

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